Shaving terms I don't like

Kill the wabbit! Kill the wabbit! Elmer needs a new wabbit bwush.

I was on a excavation in Santa Suzanna CA. This is the Ventura County end of The Old Pass Road infamous as the Manson Gang's hangout. We were literally excavating with an impatient dozer operator spitting chaw and gunning his diesal making us ill. There were these LGPs ( little grey plants) all over reminiscent of African Violets. I removed 38 clearing the site and, taking pity packed them in soil into the drawer of my field mapping table and secured into my 66 Chrysler 300 with aftermarket police package. We finishedand later a frantic state biologist called. The Santa Suzanna smog plant was on the endangered species list, the developer was obligated to alert us and there were only 49 located individuals in the area. They are unique, in that they emit aerosol oils at a very precise rate and were being studied as a control for estimating biomass emissions percentile of air pollution VS man made. The state botanist rolled up in this really nice Willys Wagoneer with a built small block Chevy NHRA engine. The area was scrubbed clean of vegetation and the first test units under shovel. Mr Deisal laughed at his emotional duress over weeds, spitting chaw near his field booted toes. I couldn't see any reaction, smokey the bear hat brim shading his expression. I asked if they were these funny grey african violet things, not having my MUNZ CA botany guide handy. OMG he was overjoyed as we transferred them to his Willies. Rumour has it later that night a dark figure in Pendelton shirt and funny hat was seen onsite and whoever poured lapping compound into the CATs oil filler, and wearing field boots with footprints blurred by woolen socks worn over said boots knew how to destroy engines.
Those weed's descendants live in a famous arboretum still helping measure our efforts at clean air.
Charlie's gone and Santa Suzanna has become yuppie fenced communities popular for filming porn movies in the swimming pools but unable to stop coyotes prowling for meals and laughing at the full moon.

I never get why people say this xxxx is not getting the love/attention it deserves in BST posts. That statement gives me no insight as a buyer. Better to say nothing and let the product speak for itself.

At least we've been spared 'unique, one of a kind' and 'must see' or the ultimate idiot seller's remark 'desperate to sell.'

I never get why people say this xxxx is not getting the love/attention it deserves in BST posts. That statement gives me no insight as a buyer. Better to say nothing and let the product speak for itself.

Speaking only for myself, I use that phrase to denote a piece of gear that performs very well, but is simply overlooked as I reach for my "favorites". It's a good enough piece of gear that it SHOULD be well used in my rotation, but it is not because I have other gear that I use more often.

With that said, I don;t post many things for sale, so when I use the phrase it is usually in reference to something I am giving away, not trying to sell...

Also, KAV , I don't know where Santa Suzanna or Ventura County are, but the Manson Family Hideout was in Inyo County...where I live. Just a couple hours south of my front door, at the northern end of Death Valley, in fact. I live about an hour from both the highest and lowest points in the contiguous US...

Barker Ranch--Home of the Manson Family...

[I also love rattlesnakes, and have been an active participant in their documentation and conservation in the area. The Panamint rattlesnake(Crotalus stephensi) is exceedingly rare everywhere but where I live...]

Manson had two hangouts; your area and the old SPAHN movie ranch between Chatsworth and Simi CA. I lived in Simi late 60s until enlisting in 1972. We used to see them dumpster diving behind markets for food. My first car was a MGA twin camm coupe. I'm driving home from a date in the SFV, Dark Side Of the Moon playing on my cassettte player breaking the rear end doing drifts around the curves ( I was 16, faster reaction time and had been taught by a Jaquar le Mans raceworks mechanic.) I came around one at speed and Charlie was dancing naked with Squeeky Fromm naked in the road. They both leaped clear and must have enjoyed some road rash on delicate parts. I kept on going indifferent; being in a Walter Mitty I'm a WW2 british night fighter pilot looking for german bombers ( VW vans) to attack. ta poket ta poket tapoket.

Yea, I think they moved to my neck of the woods around 1967 or so, just before the infamous murders took place.

Well before my time, regardless. I've only lived in the area since 2000, though I have been to the Barker Ranch in search of souvenirs...Never found anything worth admitting to, though...

I almost DID. There is a train tunnel in Chatsworth across from Rocky Point ( famous film location) that was scene of a tragic train collision some years past. I was working on a chinese labour encampment with a stunning chinese american fellow UCB alumn in charge. We received L.A. Sherriff office phone calls later asking if we found anything odd? Odd? Yes, we just located the gravesite of Shorty Shea a few feet from your mapped excavation units.

The re-branding of water to Aqua in the ingredient list.

The re-branding of water to Aqua in the ingredient list.

In many cases (mine included), that's actually a regulatory thing. If you list ingredients according to INCI standards, such as the reacted sodium and potassium salts, scientific names of essential oils, etc., the treatment of water as "aqua" is required.